This cache is the seventh one from the series Disappeared villages. This series will guide you to villages and interesting places around Chomutov abandoned during the years. For each place is attached a precise map from the late 30´s which will help you to compare the history with the present state.

The village Kienhaid, as well called Keinhaida was situated on the border with Sächsen, 8 km north from Hora Sv. Šebestiána, at the altitude of 870m. Over the brook, on the saxon side is Künhaide. The originál name of the village was at the year 1662 – Bohmische Khünheyde. Kienhaid i some of the few villages in this area, where are almost no information about it. It seems like, that the village was established after the 30-years war.
In the year is mentioned about 18 houses in Bohmishce Künheit. The weather conditions was very tough with very long winters and cold summers. The inhabitans were poor, agriculture or animal breeding was not successful in such bad conditions. Only wooden boxes and toy-guns were made there.
Even after the WWII was Kienhaid hold away from the rest of the country. The Czech state overtook the village 10. 12. 1945 – until then were all German inhabitants still living there. After this period the German inhabitants started to move over the brook into Germany. But the officer responsible for the transportation of Germans made many mistakes. The Kienhaida was completely abandoned in late 1940´.

CACHE:This cache is ment to an „experience cache“ = it is primarily not dedicated for trading. Inside are some small things to satisfy the kid-gecachers – so please trade with respect to future children-discoverers. Trackable items are welcome. In the cache laminated map of the original village together with basic information and old pictures – THIS IS NOT A TRADING ITEM – you can try to be a discoverer and identify the old houses or to find some remains of the former habitation. On many places of this series you can find pieces of dish, tiles, bottles and other interesting things. Inside the cache you will find the part of the coordinates of the FINAL of this series - Sv. Anna- GC27GE9.At the parking point (PARK1) is traffic sign "no acces for vehicles" - please follow this rule. In the area of former Kienheid village was in the past century built CSAD (Czechoslovak bus transoportation company) leasure center with facilities, artificial lake and ski-slope. The whole areal is ruined - DO NOT ENTER OLD HOUSES!!.

Cache series: The whole series is prepared so you can bike through it in a circle with start and finish at the 3 rd mill at the Bezruc valley. The circle measures cca 50km and is for good bikers only – the total elevation of the track is 2200m (1100m uphill and 1100 downhill). If you are interested, I can send you the track in GPX. I recommend to split the search into several days, so you can enjoy each of the places. Bike is anyway recommended – it will make the trip from parking to caches shorter and faster.

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